Hygrophorus chrysodon

A fungus with a viscid cap and striking bright yellow scales.

Pileipellis composed of filamentous hyphae, arranged more or less parallelly, the outermost strongly separated by gelification, 2-4 µm wide, some with abundant yellow encrusting intracellular pigment, septate with clamp connections at the septa.

Gill edge fertile, without differentiated elements from basidia or basidioles.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 35-45 µm long and 5.5-7 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to very slightly fusiform, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, faint vacuolar internal content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2225/24.